• Family : COMMELINACEAE
  (Spiderwort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KANA FAMILY (काना फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : COMMELINACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cyanotis arachnoidea C.B.Clarke
• Common name : Grass of the Dew
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Comments / notes : Occasional, above 750m and characteristically on exposed slopes by edges of rocks
• Flower, Fruit : July-November
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, East Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district, Krishna district, Guntur district, Srikakulam district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
  • Tamil Nadu : Throughout Tamil Nadu
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Eastern Himalayas, Indo-China, South China, Taiwan, Tropical Africa
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3. pp. 1005; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cyanotis arachnoidea. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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